The One Health concept is of critical importance to public health. The One Health concept promotes awareness and understanding of the interconnections among human, animal and environmental health. This study was designed ...

Nutrition education programs strive to help low-income people make optimal food choices while living on a limited budget. This study addressed perceived understanding, acceptance, and usability of Food and Nutrition Bytes, ...

Pasture burning is a practice native to the Flint Hills Region of Kansas. Without fire, the tallgrass ecosystem would cease to exist because woody species, such as the red cedar, would overtake the land (1). Ranchers in ...

Many outbreaks have occurred during mass gathering events as a result of person-to-person transmission of disease, animal-to-human transmission, and foodborne transmission. The Kansas Department of Health and Environment ...

Background: With the dramatic increase in childhood obesity rates over the last three decades, parks can offer an accessible and affordable population-level solution to the important issue of youth physical inactivity. The ...

Mongolia is a nation with a long and rich history of herding livestock as the main source of food. Since independence from the Soviet Union in 1990, it has undergone many adjustments in the livestock industry including ...

Kansas Department of Health and Environment
The Kansas Department of Health and Environment (KDHE) is a state level department concerned with protecting and improving the health and environment of all Kansas residents ...

INTRODUCTION: Research has focused on the relationship between socioeconomic status and physical activity, yet there are limited examinations which directly address social groups dealing with major issues associated with ...

Background: This study examined youth moderate-to-vigorous physical activity (MVPA) levels during flag football practice and compared youth MVPA in practices led by trained or untrained, and by experienced or inexperienced ...

Burning grass and other vegetation is a historic concept. Throughout the Flint Hills of Kansas, it is an annual event each spring in March and April. Burning is gaining more attention due to health and safety concerns. ...

The goal of this review is to provide an overview of the process by which policy is developed for complex animal diseases. There is no one size fits all approach to policy. Policy making for a disease is complex, often a ...

Veterinary Services, a branch of Animal Plant Health Inspections Services, has the responsibility to protect our nation’s animals and animal products through disease control and eradication programs, surveillance and ...

Spices and home remedies are a surprising avenue for lead poisoning in children but are all too often overlooked or under-reported due to a lack of awareness. Spices and home remedies are given to children in order to ...

As a Governor’s Internship award winner, I had the pleasure of working as an epidemiologist intern in the chronic disease program within the Kansas Department of Health and Environment, Bureau of Health Promotion (KDHE). ...

Arthropod vectors are capable of transmitting pathogens (e.g., bacteria, helminths, protozoa, and viruses) between mammals which may result in numerous diseases affecting both human and animal populations. Arthropod ...

Variant H1N1 influenza (vH1N1) virus is an issue both in swine production medicine and in the arena of public health. Influenza viruses can infect but not always produce disease in avian, humans and swine. Swine are ...

The overall focus of this field experience was to communicate nutrition education content effectively to teens in rural Kansas while respecting cultural diversity; recognizing the needs and learning style of the targeted ...

My public health field experience was completed with HealthKind, a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization located within the Posner Center for International Development in Denver, Colorado. I dedicated one hundred and eighty ...

The focus of this experience was to provide a community with motivating factors and tools for health promotion. In the first phase of the experience, the student concentrated on public health promotion pertaining to residents ...